Hi all,

At suggestion from those at Pole last week, we'll start today's telecon 30 minutes late.  We'll focus the first 30 minutes on measurements and plan at Pole, covering postings directly related to that, before moving to the pipeline telecon.

John




On 11/13/12 11:24 AM, John Kovac wrote:

Hi all,

We'll have a BICEP2 team meeting today (Tuesday) from 9-10 am Pacific. 

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Walt, could you please take notes?

Thanks to those who emailed analysis reports last night.  Please use these reports to
 - summarize conclusions drawn from postings/discussions of the *previous* week
 - status of work still needed and timeline to compete that thread
 - note new postings that require further discussion in pipeline telecon


John


------ 13 Nov 2012   BICEP2 weekly telecon agenda --------

1) Final B2 CMB data reduc czar report [ Walt ]

2) Reports from Pole [ Steff / Zak / ... ]
   - From Steff:
       - cryo: confirmed LHe adequate for warmup as late as 25 Dec
       - firewall replaced
       - analysis data SPTR transfer: Steff/Chin Lin have southern end working
   - From Zak:
       - thermal beammaps now underway, ze choppa, uber choppa data taken
       - debugging chop ref
       - moon planned Nov 16-19
   - revisions to schedule
       - B2 RPS: Nov 20-24 (simple repeat of previous)
       - B2 sidelobes: Nov 25-30
       - B2 off mount as scheduled on Dec 1


3) Final B2 Instrument Characterization postings:
   Today let's review what specific results we are looking for on each, and who is responsible for each.

   - RPS / Pol angles [ Abby / Colin / ??? ]
   - ff beam maps [ Randol / Abby / Chin Lin ??? ]
   - sidelobe maps [ Abby / Randol / ??? ]
   - dark runs [ lead: Angiola ]  posting here

    * need results from above before B2 comes off mount! *

   - FTS [ lead: Jon,  others: Grant, Immanuel, Kirit. ]
   - Thermal testing [ Jon lead...anything urgent remaining? ]

    * need results from these before B2 warms...target Dec 10? *

4) Analysis status reports
 
Baseline 2yr data reduction updates  [ Walt ]
   * El nod goodness of fit cut: any progress in past week? [ Martin, Angiola ]
        - urgent!

   * Reprocessing data [ Angiola ]
        - Needed for scansets with offline NTD cal or tweak_elnods fix
        - Angiola has found a few more with possible el nod tweak needed
        - Deferred until el nod GOF calcs done

Characterizing non-beam systematics [ Walt / Angiola ] brief!
    * relgain mismatch from per-channel abscal [ Walt ]
        - In progress: split by season / epoch
        - Now feeding into outlier det lists for channel selection
    * crosstalk
    * magnetic / dark runs [ Angiola ]
    * thermal [ Jon ]


Characterizing beam systematics [ Abby (/Randol) ]
   Abby just sent a report, redundant with much of what is above...


Data consistency check status report [ Chris (/Randol) ]
  report on LAST WEEK's discussion of sim1234 -- some initial post-deproj jack failures.

Other threads deferred this week...


    






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